1Charles James Fox Binney, The History and Genealogy of the Prentice, or Prentiss Family, in New England, etc., pp. 271-273 (1883).
"2. JOHN2 PRENTICE, son of Valentine and Alice, was b. in England, and came over with his parents in 1631. He m. Hester -----, and d. in 1691. He was "Admitted to the Roxbury church, 24 d., 7 mo., 1665" (per records of the First Church, Roxbury, Mass.), and here he carried most of his children to be baptized.§
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Children:
I. JOHN3, b. Aug. 6, 1652. [3]
II. JOSEPH3, b. April 2, 1655; d. June, 1676.
III. JONATHAN3, b. July 15, 1657. [4]
IV. HESTER3, b. July 20, 1660; m. Ben. Adam Gallup.† b. 1655.
V. PETER3, b. July 31, 1663; d. May 14, 1670.*
VI. STEPHEN3, b. Dec. 26, 1666. [5]
VII. MERCY3, b. Dec. 1668.
VIII. HANNAH3, b. June, 1672; bapt. in New London, 1672; m. Lieut. John Frink, of Stonington.
IX. THOMAS3, (twins, b. Nov. 6, 1675;
X. ELIZABETH3,(Elizabeth m., May 23, 1700, Daniel Comstock, and d. Dec. 13, 1770, ae. 95. [6]
‡XI. VALENTINE3, b. about 1680; "of Woodbury, Ct." § [7]
The church records of June 19, 1685, show contract of marriage between John Prentis and Rebecca, dau. of Ralph Parker, Thomas Barnet, minister of the parish,being one of the witnesses. The issue of this marriage was Ralph, an unfortunate being, long maintained by funds left by his parents for that purpose.
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‡ Ten of the children of John and Esther Prentis are recorded on New London records; the eleventh, Valentine, who went about 1700 to Woodbury, is supposed (by a writer of John and Esther's descendants' records) to have been his son by an early marriage, before coming to New London, but the other account of his birth, about 1680, is probably correct. This same writer says, "Elizabeth, relict of Thomas Bowen, of Rehoboth (whose second husband was Samuel Fuller, of Plymouth), calls John Prentis, of New London, blacksmith, 'our brother-in-law,' and gives him power of attorney, April 11, 1663.".".